Side car for motor cycles



W. E. MORTON.

SIDE CAR FOR MOTOR CYCLES. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 29. 1920.

Patented Nov. 28,1922.

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SIDE CAR FOR MOTOR CYCLES.

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SIDE CAR FOR MOTOR CYCLES.

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Application filed November 2 9, 1920. Serial .No. 427,181.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM ERNEST Mon- TON, a British subject, residing at Chorltonl which can swivel or rock therein.

cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Side Cars for Motor Cycles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the under carriage or chassis of a side car by which such is connected or. attached to the frame of a motor cycle.

It is designed to provide that the vertical axis of the side car body andside car wheel will be maintained parallel or approximately parallel with that of the cycle when the latter is canted in turning a corner, or in other words, that the side car will cant with the cycle. V

The invention consists in so constructing the chassis of a side car and coupling it to a motor bicycle that the side car body and wheel will be canted or tilted to right or left corresponding to the movement of the motor cycle necessitated when turning corners.

The invention will be fully described with reference to theaccompanying drawings.

Fig. l is a side elevation of side car and chassis.

Fig. 2 is a planof chassis. I Fig. 3 is an elevation from rear showing the cycle and side car in upright position.

Fig. 4 is an elevation from rear showing cycle and side car in inclined orcanted position.

Fig. 5 is an elevation from rear showing a modification.

The motor cycle A is of any ordinary or known construction to which a side car can be afiixed.

The sidecar chassis comprises a longitudinal frame B extendin from the front to the rear to which the site car body C is suspended. The longitudinal supporting frame is attached or coupled to the frame'of the motor cycle A by rigid front and rear transverse bars or members B B by swivelling or articulated joints which will allow the cycle to cant over into an inclined position when travelling round corners (as shown in Fig. 4.)

The frame B is constructed with bearings at the ends to receive trunnions or pivots b By the trunnions Z) the side car body C is suspended from the frame B through the intervention of a supporting bar .D connected to the car body by springs d. The springs (i may be coil springs as shown. This construction permits the body C to cant or tilt to one side or the other as may be desired.

A stub axle E for the wheel F is pivoted to the rear transverse frame member B so that of the cycle A. At or near its centre the linker coupling rod 0' engages a lever H I which is connected direct to the supporting bar D and trunnions b (as in Fig. 5) or through the intervention of a second rocking.

bar a? connected to the supporting bar D by rods or links d (as in Figs. 3 and 4). i

The inclination of the cycle A either to right or left inclines the lever G in the same direction, and this through the rod or link 0 and levere inclines the wheel F on the stub axle E to acorresponding degree, and at the same time moves the lever H and rocks the side carbody over at the same time (as shown in Fig. 4). Thus the cycle A, the side car wheel F, and side carbody G always cant over or incline to one side or the other simultaneously as may he demanded by the requirement of the rider of the motor cycle.

What I claim as my invention and desire to protect by Letters Patent is 1. In a chassis for a motor cycle side car the combination with a longitudinal frame from which the body is suspended, and rigid front and rear transverse frame members by which to couple it to the motor cycle, of a horizontal rocking bar and trunnions above the centre of gravity of the body upon which the body is suspended, a stub axle for the wheel pivoted to. the rear transverse member, a lever connected to the stub axle, a transverse link pivoted thereto and connected to the frame ofthe motor cycle, and a lever extending beneath the body to engage the transverse link and cause the wheel and thebody to cant or tilt corresponding to the movement of the motor cycle.

2. In a chassis for a motor cycle side car the combination witha longitudinal frame to support the body, and a transverse member to couple it tn the motor cycle of a stub axle to carry the wheel pivoted to the transverse member, a lever attached to said axle, alever In testimony whereof I have hereunto set pivoted to the other end of the transverse my hand in presence of two subscribing wilmember attached at its upper end to the cycle nesses."

' and at its lower end connected by a link with l/VILLIAM ERNEST MORTON.

the lever on the wheel axle and means to "Witnesses: connect the link with and rock the side can J. OWDEN OBRIEN, body. GEORGE H. OBRIEN. 

